OpenSocial Tutorial - Step by step Video Guide

4th day in Bangalore at the OpenSocial Hackathon and friends back in Pune and Mumbai are finally concerned about my disappearance.

No one really has much clue about what OpenSocial is and what's it going to be...
Other computer geeks too have been rather ignorant...Finally some guys inquired that how can one go about building an OpenSocial app!

So this post's dedicated to all these guys.

Video 1:
A brief introduction about gadgets, and stuff on how to add your first OpenSocial application in the Orkut sandbox.


Video 2:
Here's some sample code that shows you how to call the OpenSocial API and list a user's friends.


Video 3:
Example of an App. Give gifts to your friends...


Video 4:


Video 5:

Open Social Hackathon (Bangalore)

Apologies for not having posted for a long time - but as THE day for the launch comes closer...
the number of posts shall increase.

Currently in the Google office at Bangalore and the next few days are totally dedicated to Open Social. So going to be learning quite a lot and posting stuff too.

Here are some pictures to start off with...



Hackathon in progress: